South Shields, Jane and Elizabeth

HER Number:
14979

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
South Shields, Jane and Elizabeth

Place:
South Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Sailing Vessel

Site Type: Specific:
Barque

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
Driven from her moorings by the tide in the river, struck on the stones of the Bar and rolled over on her beam ends at 9pm, on the half ebb, 1852. Built: 1851 Master: Gibson Crew: 13 Crew Lost: 2

Easting:
36

Northing:
68

Grid Reference:
NZ3668

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
National Monuments Record (987152); United Kingdom shipwreck index [pre publication typescript]; Richard and Bridget Larn 1997 Shipwreck index of the British Isles, volume 3. The east coast of England : Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, County Durham, Northumberland Section 6, County Durham (CF)